INSCRIPTIONS, 



ON 



THE BRONZE TABLETS 

RECENTLY PLACED ON THE GATES OF 

THE OLDER BURIAL GROUNDS IN 
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



PREPARED BY 

SAMUEL A. GREEN. 



INSCRIPTIONS 



ON 



THE BRONZE TABLETS 

RECENTLY PLACED ON THE GATES OF 

THE OLDER BURIAL GROUNDS IN 
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



PREPARED B-^l. 

SAMUEL a!^ GREEN. 




CAMBRIDGE: 

JOHN WILSON AND SON. 

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Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts 
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INSCRirTIONS. 



Dr. Green, who was iNIayor of Boston last year, presented 
copies of the inscriptions on the bronze tablets recently placed 
on the gates of the older burial-grounds in the city. He said 
that the first public suggestion of such memorials came from 
Alderman Stebbins, who introduced the order passed at a 
meeting of the Board of Aldermen, on Nov. 3, 1879 ; but it 
appears from the Proceedings (xvii. 132) that at least two 
months before this, Mr. Winthrop had suggested placing an 
inscribed tablet on the King's Chapel burial-ground. This 
order authorized the ^[ayor to place suitable tablets at the 
entrance of certain burial-grounds, giving the names of said 
grounds, the dates of their establishment as well as the names 
of some of the most prominent persons buried therein; but for 
some reason it was never carried out. Last year, on January 
23, Alderman Stebbins introduced a similar order, and in com- 
pliance with it Dr. Green prepared the following inscriptions 
for the tablets, which have now been set up : — 



KING'S CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND 
1630 

Here were buried 
GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS 

John Wintlirop 1G49, John Endecott 1GG5, 

John Leverett 1079, "William Shirley 1771 ; 

LIEUT. GOVERNORS OF !\IASSACHUSETTS 
William Phillips 1827, Thomas Lindall AVintlirop 1811 ; 

GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT 
John Winthrop 1G76, Fitz-Johu Winthrop 1707 ; 

JUDGES OF MASSACHUSETTS 
Wait Still Winthrop 1717, Adam Winthrop 1743, 

Oliver Wendell 1818, Thomas Dawes 1825; 

MINISTERS OF BOSTON 
John Cotton 1G52, John Davenport 1G70, 

John Oxenbridgc 1G74, Thomas Bridge 1715. 



KING'S CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND 
1630 



Here were buried 

Jacob Sheafe 1G58, John Winslow 1G71, 

Mary Chilton 1G79, 

a passenger in the IMayflower 

and wife of John Winslow, 

Major Thomas Savage 1682, 

Lady Andros 1G88, 

Captain Roger Clap 1G90, Thomas Brattle 1713, 

Professor John Wintlirop 177G, 
James Lloyd 1831, Charles Bullinch 1811. 



COPP'S HILL BURIAL GROUND 
1659 



Increase Mather 1723, 
Samuel Mather 1785, 



Thomas Lake, 

John Phillips, 



Here were buried 
MINISTERS 



Cotton Mather 172H, 
Andrew Eliot 1778 5 



and 

David Copp, 

Anthony Haywood, 

and others of the early inhabitants 

of Boston. 



Nicholas Upshall, 
John Clarke, 



On this ground were planted 

the British Batteries 

which destroyed the Village of Charlestown 

during the Battle of Bunker Hill, 

June 17, 1775. 



GRANARY BURIAL GROUND 
1660 



Within this ground are buried 

John Hancock, Samuel Adams, 

and Robert Treat Paine, 

Signers of the Declaration of Independence ; 

GOVERNORS 
Richard Bellingliam, William Dununer, 

James Bowdoin, Increase Sumner, 

James Sullivan and Christopher Gore ; 

Lieut. Governor Thomas Gushing; 

Chief Justice Samuel Sewall ; 

INlinisters John Baily, Samuel Willard, 

Jeremy Belknap and John Lathrop. 



GRANARY BURIAL GROUND 
1660 



Within this ground are buried 

The victims of tlie Boston Massacre, 

March 5, 1770. 



Josiah Franklin and wife, 

(Parents of Benjamin Franlvlin) 

Peter Faneuil, Paul Revere : 

and 

John Phillips, 

First Mayor of Boston. 



ROXBURY BURIAL GROUND 



Here were buried 

GOVERNORS 
Thomas Dudley 10-33, Joseph Dudley 1720; 



Chief Justice Paul Dudley 17")2 ; Col. William Dudley 1743 ; 

MINISTERS 

John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, 1090, 

Thomas Walter 172;!, Nehemiah Walter 17r.O, 

Oliver Peabody 1752, Amos Adams 1775, 

Eliphalet Porter 1833, 

and 

Benjamin Tompson, Schoolmaster and Physician, 1711. 



DORCHESTER BURIAL GROUND 



Here were buried 

GOVERNORS 
William Stougliton 1701, William Tailer 1732,' 

MINISTERS 

Eichard I\ratlier 1GG9, Josiah Flint 1 G80, 

John Danforth 1730, Jonatlian Bowman 1775, 

Moses Everett 1813, Thaddeiis Mason Harris 1842; 

Major Gen. Humphrey Atherton IGGl, 

William Pole, Sehoolmaster, 1674, 

John Foster, First Printer of P>osto]i, 1G81, 

Isaac Eoyal 17.")9, James Blake, Annalist, 1750 

and Ebenezer Clapp 1881. 



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